Aesthetics of Displacement

Turkey and its Minorities on Screen

AvOzlem Koksal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This open access book focuses on aesthetic and narrative continuities of films, including Ararat, Waiting for the Clouds and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, examining them in light of major historical event(s) and their context (political and social) as well as the impact these events had on the construction of both minority and Turkish identity.Displacement does not only have an effect on groups’ and individuals’ ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey’s minorities, Aesthetics of Displacement argues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films. Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determine not only the types of stories told but also the ways in which these stories are told.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Topics and Issues in National Cinema
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501306464

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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Özlem Köksal is Lecturer in Film Television and Moving Image at the University of Westminster, UK.

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A brilliant volume that will become a canonical text in the studies of the cinema of Turkey. Ozlem Koksal eloquently and impeccably scrutinizes the concept of displacement and its representation within films about minorities in Turkey. Koksal rigorously analyzes these films in the light of memory, language, and minority experience while providing a brilliant and engaging history of Turkish cinema—particularly its relationship to aesthetics, identity, and genocide. Aesthetics of Displacement is indispensable for anyone interested in issues around the representation of minorities, identity, and displacement, as well as for anyone studying cinema in and about Turkey.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Memory, Identity: The Turkish Context- Memory and Cinema- Turkey: Remembering and Forgetting- The Military Coup and the Post-1980s- Cinema in Turkey: A Brief OverviewChapter 3: Recurring Themes and Motifs:- Politics of Language- Silence- Space/Spatial Relations- Haunting- EpistolarityChapter 4: Representing Minorities:- The Context and the Overview of the Films- Close-up: Politiki Kouzina/A Touch of Spice- Close-up: Bulutlari Beklerken/Waiting for the CloudsChapter 5: Representing the Unrepresentable: Ararat and the Armenian Genocide- Historical Overview: 1915 and its Aftermath- Overview of Films- Close-up: Ararat- Layers of Reception: Beyond AraratChapter 6: The Kurdish Question in Films- Turkey’s “Kurdish Question” and Cinema- Close up: Gunese Yolculuk/Journey to the Sun- Close-up: Buyuk Adam Kucuk Ask/Hejar- Close-up: Gitmek/My Marlon and Brando- Close-up: DOL: The Valley of TambourinesChapter 7: Conclusion: Some Afterthoughts and Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaBibliographyIndex

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